Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is always a danger after a number of victories of becoming somewhat over-confident, and of relaxing in effort. This feeling is to be guarded against now that we have again been successful in debating. Another debate and probably one that will call for the very best skill that the University commands is still to come...
...ninety-six crew is now cut down to twelve men. All of these will be retained for some time, then two of them will be dropped. Fennessy is coaching the men at present and an effort is being made to secure a permanent coach. The work of the crew lacks snap; the leg drive is weak, the shoot is slow, and the arms break before the legs are down. The order is: Stroke, Kales; 7, Forbes; 6, Shepard; 5, Derby; 4, Greenough; 3, Dorman; 2, Frothingham; bow, Fairchild. The extra men are Rice, Fox, Barrett and Lincoln...
...Savage took for his text two passages: Hebrews xii, 27 and 28; and Matthew v, 48. He showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...
...hoped that all college riders will make a special effort to attend the meeting for it will help the formation of an intercollegiate cycling association which would take bicycle racing in the colleges out of the track events and place it on an independent footing, where it belongs...
...Kalypso," a poem by Joseph Trum bull Stickney, is an ambitious effort. It is, however, a failure, because sense is sacrificed to form. The cadences of the metre are exquisitely melodious. This extract is characteristic...